Keeper

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Field	Value
Name	Keeper
Tagline	AI-powered dating app that uses matchmaking technology to pair users with soulmates
Headquarters	New York City, United States
Founded	2022
Stage	Seed
Business Model	B2C
Industry	Consumer / Dating
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founders	Cody Zervas, Jake Kozloski, Toban Weibe, Wes Myers
Funding Label	Seed
Total Disclosed	~$4,000,000 [Business Insider, Dec 2025]

Links

• Website: https://www.keeper.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keepermatch
• Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/keeper-d717

What an Investor Needs First

Keeper is a New York-based matchmaking startup that pairs an AI compatibility engine with human matchmakers and charges premium prices for introductions. The company was founded in 2022 by Cody Zervas, Jake Kozloski, Toban Weibe, and Wes Myers, and went through Y Combinator before raising roughly $4 million in seed capital from Lightbank, Lakehouse Ventures, and Champion Hill Ventures, disclosed in December 2025 [Business Insider, Dec 2025] [AlleyWatch, Dec 2025]. The product combines a proprietary algorithm the company describes as guided by relationship science and evolutionary psychology with human review of each match [submitaitools.org]. Pricing reported in the press is $5,000 for an introduction and $50,000 for an introduction that leads to a year-long relationship [DNyuz, Dec 2025] [Reddit]. That positioning moves Keeper out of the swipe-app cohort and into the concierge matchmaker tier occupied by Tawkify, Three Day Rule, and Dating Ring. Over the next 12 to 18 months the watch items are paying-customer count, match-to-relationship conversion, matchmaker capacity per dollar of revenue, and whether the AI layer materially compresses the cost-to-serve.

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Business Insider, AlleyWatch, DNyuz, and Crunchbase.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Stage	Seed
Business Model	B2C, premium service
Industry / Vertical	Consumer dating / matchmaking
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning with human-in-the-loop
Geography	North America (HQ New York City)
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Four co-founders, YC alumni
Funding	~$4M seed disclosed Dec 2025

Inside the Company

Keeper was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New York City. The four co-founders are Cody Zervas, Jake Kozloski, Toban Weibe, and Wes Myers, with Wes Myers identified publicly as Co-founder and Chief Business Officer [LinkedIn]. The company passed through Y Combinator.

The pivotal public milestone is the December 2025 disclosure of a roughly $4 million seed round, covered by Business Insider and AlleyWatch [Business Insider, Dec 2025] [AlleyWatch, Dec 2025]. The named investors are Lightbank, Lakehouse Ventures, and Champion Hill Ventures.

Keeper presents itself on its website as "The AI Matchmaker for Finding Your Soulmate" [Keeper]. Press coverage in late 2025 from Vice and DNyuz framed the company around its premium price points and its claim that algorithmic matching combined with experienced matchmakers can produce relationship-grade outcomes [Vice, 2025] [DNyuz, Dec 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Business Insider, AlleyWatch, Crunchbase, and the company website.

Under the Hood

Keeper's product is a paid matchmaking service. According to coverage of the December 2025 pitch deck, the service uses a proprietary algorithm informed by relationship science and evolutionary psychology, then routes candidate matches through experienced matchmakers who personally review each pairing [Business Insider, Dec 2025] [submitaitools.org] [Keeper]. The company markets this as a hybrid model: AI handles top-of-funnel filtering, and humans handle judgment calls.

Pricing is tiered around outcome: roughly $5,000 for an introduction and roughly $50,000 for an introduction that leads to a year-long relationship [DNyuz, Dec 2025] [Reddit]. This structure transfers some outcome risk from the customer to Keeper and positions the AI layer as a margin lever.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product framing confirmed by Business Insider, DNyuz, and the company website; technical implementation details are not publicly disclosed.

Market Research and Opportunity

Keeper sits in two adjacent markets: mass-market online dating and offline-rooted concierge matchmaking. Keeper's wager is that AI compresses the matchmaker-hours required per client enough to expand the addressable customer base for premium service.

Demand drivers cited across the coverage include declining satisfaction with swipe-based products, growing willingness among higher-income singles to outsource the search, and a 2025 shift in consumer AI toward personal-services applications [Vice, 2025] [DNyuz, Dec 2025].

Sizing claim	Value
Keeper introduction fee	~$5,000
Keeper outcome-tier price (year-long relationship)	~$50,000
Keeper seed raise	~$4M

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Pricing and round size confirmed by multiple outlets; market sizing is not publicly available from a named third-party report.

Competition and Substitutes

Keeper is positioned as a technology-enabled premium matchmaker, competing with human concierge incumbents.

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding
Keeper	AI-assisted premium matchmaker, outcome-tier pricing	Seed, ~$4M
Tawkify	Human concierge matchmaking, US national	Private, established
Three Day Rule	Premium matchmaking, partnered historically with Match Group	Private
Dating Ring	Concierge matchmaking, originally YC-backed	Private, YC alumna

Keeper has a temporary capital and hiring advantage due to its YC pedigree and venture-funded balance sheet. The durability question is whether the AI layer is a cost-to-serve breakthrough or whether premium clients still demand enough matchmaker time that economics converge with incumbents.

Opportunity

If Keeper's AI plus human matchmaker model compresses the cost-to-serve in concierge matchmaking, the prize is the first venture-scale outcome the premium dating category has produced in over a decade.

Growth scenarios.

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst
Premium category leader	Keeper becomes the recognised brand for paid AI matchmaking in the US	Published conversion data plus a Series A
Tiered consumer ladder	Keeper introduces lower-priced tiers below $5K	A productised lower tier launched on the back of seed-funded engineering hires
Strategic acquisition target	A swipe-app incumbent acquires Keeper	Match Group or Bumble responding to ARPU pressure

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Pricing, investor list, and round size confirmed by multiple outlets; the scenarios are explicitly labelled and rest on cited evidence.

Sources

1. [Business Insider, Dec 2025] Startup Keeper Says AI Can Find Your Soulmate, Raises $4M: Pitch Deck | https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-dating-app-keeper-raised-four-million-pitch-deck-2025-12
2. [AlleyWatch, Dec 2025] Keeper Raises $4M to Build Fully Automated Matchmaking That Actually Works | https://www.alleywatch.com/2025/12/keeper-ai-matchmaking-dating-relationship-science-jake-kozloski/
3. [DNyuz, Dec 2025] This AI matchmaking startup says it can find your 'soulmate' but be prepared to spend $50,000. Read its pitch deck. | https://dnyuz.com/2025/12/11/this-ai-matchmaking-startup-says-it-can-find-your-soulmate-but-be-prepared-to-spend-50000-read-its-pitch-deck/
4. [Vice, 2025] Inside Keeper, the $50K AI Matchmaker for Soulmates | https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-matchmaker-keeper/
5. [Crunchbase] Keeper - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/keeper-d717
6. [LinkedIn] Keeper company page | https://www.linkedin.com/company/keepermatch
7. [LinkedIn] Cody Zervas - Keeper | https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-zervas-82a26149
8. [LinkedIn] Wes Myers - Co-founder and CBO of Keeper | https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgewmyers1/
9. [Keeper] Keeper: The AI Matchmaker for Finding Your Soulmate | https://www.keeper.ai/
10. [Keeper] About Keeper | https://www.keeper.ai/about
11. [Keeper] Matchmaker Comparison | https://www.keeper.ai/matchmaker-comparison
12. [submitaitools.org] Keeper AI: Matchmaking with AI and Human Intuition | https://submitaitools.org/keeper-ai/
13. [Tracxn] Keeper - 2025 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors | https://tracxn.com/d/companies/keeper/__kAENS0_kpMfnmlliNEPBlyGZ4ut1s3nCtggI2GpdD7A
14. [CBInsights] Keeper - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations | https://www.cbinsights.com/company/keeper-4